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Section of a Roman decorative shaft or candelabrum stand with a fluted column-shaft rising from a double date palm-leaf sheathing, with stylised palmette enrichment between two high relief roll fillets.
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Section of a Roman decorative shaft or candelabrum stand with a fluted column-shaft rising from a double date palm-leaf sheathing, with stylised palmette enrichment between two high relief roll fillets.
Pentelic marble
Height: 56cm
Diameter (top): 17cm
Circumference: 6.7cm
Diameter (top): 17cm
Circumference: 6.7cm
Museum number: M719
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 220
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Provenance
Rome; collected in Rome by Charles Heathcote Tatham for the architect Henry Holland during the 1790s. See Cornelius Vermeule, unpublished Catalogue of the Antiquities at Sir John Soane's Museum, Introduction, transcription of Tatham letters, List 2, no. 5.
Literature
Tatham: Drawings, 2.
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